Newspaper reporter Maddie Contino (Jen Lilley) embarks on a US Navy Tiger Cruise also known as the USS Christmas, during the festive season, where she meets handsome naval officer Lt. Billy Jenkins (Trevor Donovan).
Being a serious career officer, he is less than thrilled to be
assigned to assist her in researching a story, but his attitude softens after
stumbling on a romantic mystery in the ship's archive regarding an old love
story and while doing so begin a love story of their own.
Gwen (Lindy Booth) is an auctioneer employed to downsize a magnificent estate in the run up to Christmas for the dour reclusive owner Alan Hawthorne (Vlasta Vrana).
The success of the clearance is vitally important as her commission
would set her up to purchase the auction house.
The fly in the ointment however is the head of the cleaning crew Reed
(Justin Bruening) who she had worked with on a previous occasion so there is
some friction between them but working on the new project offers them a second
opportunity to slowly resolve their issues.
So as the two uncover the house's treasures, they help an aging father to resolve his relationship with his estranged daughter, an unlikely couple find love and lead themselves to find their true feelings and move on to a loving future together.
In the run up to Christmas, TV presenter Kate Harper (Lori Loughlin) accidentally admits, live on air that she doesn’t like Christmas.
Due to the backlash from viewers and
sponsors alike, she and producer and ex-college boyfriend Jack Brewster (Colin
Ferguson) are sent to a small town in North Dakota to film a Christmas special
in order to discover her Christmas spirit and repair Kates image,
As she embraces the Christmas festivities
the Christmas spirit begins to change her life and along the way, she
reconciles with her estranged father Michael (Michael St. John Smith), learns
to enjoy Christmas again and falls in love with her former beau.
Amy Michaels (Elisabeth Harnois) had
planned a perfect Christmas in Chicago with her boyfriend, but those plans are ruined
when he unexpectedly breaks up with her after telling her he has another
girlfriend.
Not wanting to spend Christmas alone she
decides to visit her half-brother Daniel (Samuel Hunt) who is in Vienna trying
to track down relatives on his dad's side of the family.
Looking for new experiences she decides to
take a ballroom dancing lesson and is paired with a very handsome European man
named Lukas (Christian Oliver).
To use terpsichorean parlance, they get off
on the wrong foot, but after initially clashing, their partnership becomes more
harmonious and they end up spending the day together and an attraction forms
between them but will this new found magnetism lead to love or another broken
heart.
On the day New York stockbroker Sam Wallace (Vanessa Lengies) starts a new job she discovers that the company have been taken over and her boyfriend Will (René Escobar Jr) is her new boss.
So, she does the only
thing she can do, she quits both of them and returns home to upstate New York
to spend Christmas with her mother Tammy (Maria Ricossa) and reconnects with
her high school sweetheart Noah Fitzpatrick (Corey Sevier) who she left behind
in order to pursue her business career.
After some initial
frostiness on his part he eventually thaws and they are able to rekindle their
former love.
Miranda (Alicia Dea Josipovic) and Paul (Travis Nelson) both meet at a Secret Santa party where they have both disguised their identities and they click instantly and are clearly on the same wavelength.
They agree to keep their disguises on and their anonymity until after
the party, but they are separated before they can exchange numbers and have no
way of finding each other.
Miranda is a talented tech guru who has developed an app to help
Christmas shoppers select the perfect gift for their recipients, but is upset
to find that her app has been sold to another company which in turn merges with
a rival and she has to work jointly with one of the enemy on the holiday
gift-giving app.
Her rival turns out to be her mystery man Paul from the Secret Santa
but neither of them know so sparks fly between them but as they work together,
they develop unexpected feelings for one another even before they discover
their previous interactions.
Two years have passed since Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) and her brother Teddy (Judah Lewis) helped Santa save Christmas.
However, she is now a cynical 13-year-old who is unhappily
spending Christmas with her family in Cancún, Mexico, with her mom
Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her brother, her mom's new boyfriend Bob
Booker (Tyrese Gibson), and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno), when she would rather
be back home, where there is snow and it feels more like a real Christmas.
So, Kate decides to run away and uses her mom’s credit card to book an
early flight back home to Boston.
When she is sneaking out of the Hotel and is unaware, she is being
followed by Jack, she is tricked by an evil Christmas Elf
Belsnickel (Julian Dennison), posing as a driver, to get onto a shuttle,
which Jack sneaks on to as well.
But they aren’t going to the airport, instead they are transported to
the North Pole where they are rescued by Santa Claus (Kurt
Russell) who takes them back to his house where Mrs. Claus (Goldie
Hawn) is waiting.
Of course, Belsnickel transported the kids in order to use them as
bait to attract Santa so he could sneak into the Village.
Once inside he put his plan to take over Christmas for his own evil
ends into action.
So not for the first time Kate has to help Santa save Christmas, this
time he has Jack and Mrs Claus to help.
